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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • ??? Why don’t you tap it and see.

    I did try that. Nothing appeared to happen, or change on my end; however, I now realize what the issue was. The first thought that I had, when I first noticed that Icon, was actually the exact same as that which you said; it just never occured to me that I could be on the same instance as the comments in question. So, when I tried clicking that icon, I was clicking it on a post that was from Lemmy.world – the same instance that I am on. As such, I noticed no change in the displayed content – the page would appear to load, but nothing would actually change. This is, of course, to be expected – I just didn’t put 2 and 2 together. I apologize if my inquiry seemed lazy, or thoughtless.

    As an aside, In my defence, the UI also doesn’t necessarily tell you what the icon does. If you hover your mouse over it, you will see the following:

    Imo “link” isn’t exactly descriptive, as to the button’s purpose.







  • Can you see if a moderator has removed comments from a thread?

    Yes, but it involves sorting through the community modlog.

    I wonder if this feature could be implemented – it would just be another sorting option in comment sections – assuming that the server actually stores this data.

    Can you see the content of the removed comments?

    No. Not even mods/admins can.

    From what I can see in the modlog, it appears that you can see the content of comments, but just not the content of posts. It seems to treat comments as post titles in the log. What’s also weird is that they have links associated with them which appear to point at nothing. Perhaps they are supposed to point to the original comment/post?

    Are moderators able to specify motive for the specific removal?

    Yes, but to be honest, I have no idea where that reason goes or who it is visible to

    It looks like you can see it underneath the removed item in a little bit of text that states “Reason”, and then the reasoning.




















  • I don’t really understand this reasoning. Some server would still need to receive those requests at some point. Would it not be better if those requests were distributed, rather than pounded onto one server? If you have a server caching all the content for its users, then all of its users are sending all of those requests for content to that one single server. If users fetched content from their source servers, then the load would be distributed. The only real difference that I can think of is that the speed of post retreival. Even then, though, that could be flawed, as perhaps the source server is faster than one’s host server.